Ostara composes a single perfume for a single person, from a conversation about the rooms, seasons and people you remember. The formula is never sold to anyone else.
Your first sitting lasts two hours. The perfumer asks about a kitchen, a coat, a coastline, a person. You smell raw materials blind and tell us what you love and what you can’t stand. Nothing is written in perfume language.
Length
Two hours, in atelier
You bring
Nothing. Sometimes a letter or a sweater.
II.
Three accords become the spine of it.
From over 400 materials, the perfumer builds three small accords that carry what you described: the bright opening, the heart that lasts the afternoon, and the base that stays on a scarf for a week.
Palette
412 raw materials
Includes
Rare naturals sourced by harvest year
III.
You wear it through a season before it is finished.
We send three variations to live with at home. Wear them to work, to dinner, to bed. At the second sitting we pick one and adjust it. At the third, we sign off the formula together.
Trials
Three variations, then refinements
Timeline
Twelve to sixteen weeks
IV.
Hand-cut crystal, engraved with your initials.
The finished perfume is delivered in a 100 ml refillable crystal flacon cut in Bohemia, with a gilt brass cap and your initials engraved under the shoulder. A travel atomizer comes with it.
Flacon
100 ml, refillable
Engraving
Up to four characters
V.
Your formula is kept for as long as you are.
Every formula is archived under your name and never used for anyone else. Refills are made to order from the same materials, and you can return each year to adjust it as you change.
Refills
100 ml, made to order
Exclusivity
Written into your commission
Before your sitting
Choose three accords you already love.
This is a sketch, not a perfume. It gives the perfumer a starting place, and it will change once you smell the real materials.